censurer

English

Etymology

From censure +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

censurer (plural censurers)

1. One who censures.

   Synonyms: censor, scolder, vituperator

   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:

     […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]

Translations

censor — see censor

French

Etymology

From censure +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/

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Verb

censurer

1. to formally rebuke; to censure
2. to censor

Usage notes

• The "rebuke" meaning usually refers to organization with a specific process for separating themselves from their members' speech, such as religious organizations, political parties and legislatures.

Conjugation

Conjugation of censurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	censurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	censurant /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		censuré /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	censure /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censures /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censure /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censurons /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɔ̃/	censurez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/	censurent /sɑ̃.syʁ/
	imperfect	censurais /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	censurais /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	censurait /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɛ/	censurions /sɑ̃.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	censuriez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁje/	censuraient /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	censurai /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/	censuras /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/	censura /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/	censurâmes /sɑ̃.sy.ʁam/	censurâtes /sɑ̃.sy.ʁat/	censurèrent /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	censurerai /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	censureras /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	censurera /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	censurerons /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	censurerez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	censureront /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	censurerais /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	censurerais /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	censurerait /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	censurerions /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	censureriez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁje/	censureraient /sɑ̃.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	censure /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censures /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censure /sɑ̃.syʁ/	censurions /sɑ̃.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	censuriez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁje/	censurent /sɑ̃.syʁ/
	imperfect2	censurasse /sɑ̃.sy.ʁas/	censurasses /sɑ̃.sy.ʁas/	censurât /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa/	censurassions /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	censurassiez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁa.sje/	censurassent /sɑ̃.sy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	censure /sɑ̃.syʁ/	—	censurons /sɑ̃.sy.ʁɔ̃/	censurez /sɑ̃.sy.ʁe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “censurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.